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  • 2010
  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2010
  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 19 m

Summary The adventure of a lifetime begins... Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat, this film simultaneously follows four babies around the world – from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opu...

Directed By: Thomas Balmès

Written By: Alain Chabat, Thomas Balmès

  • 2010
  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2010
  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 19 m
Babies
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
63
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 24 User Ratings
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Summary The adventure of a lifetime begins... Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat, this film simultaneously follows four babies around the world – from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opu...

Directed By: Thomas Balmès

Written By: Alain Chabat, Thomas Balmès

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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27% Mixed
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3% Negative
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100
Observant and funny and thoughtful too, powered exclusively by vérité footage without a word of narration, Babies is William Blake’s Infant Joy brought to rich cinematic life.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
75
A mesmerizing and weirdly manipulative experience.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW

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Cheryl
Oct 13, 2010
The concept of the film was great, the execution was incomplete. They needed to include a bigger representation of babies across the globe. The lifestyle of the babies of third world countries were truly jaw dropping, and created a hunger to see more. It felt like a glimpse rather than a complete documentary.
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jimmytancredi
May 29, 2011
This is an awesome documentary. we get to see how four babies from different parts of the world have the first experience basic emotions like surprise, happiness, frustration, rage, boredom, even bullying! And we see how they naturally go through those first stages of self-discovery, social interaction and how they learn about the world around them. There really are no words that can do it justice.
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75
As the movie goes on, these fleshy little beings turn into…well, people. And that's something to see. But Babies, without falsifying its subject, could have used a more soul-stirring sense of showbiz -- that is, a riper display of infantile special effects.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Of course, there's no need to overthink it: If you just want to watch a baby respond to the arrival of a rooster in his bed with perfect comic timing, Babies is the movie to see.
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63
Director Thomas Balmes and his editors find moments of humor in “discoveries” or the unfettered urinating of a baby brought up without diapers.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
So after about an hour of watching four children eat, bathe and crawl, you might start to wonder why you've paid to see somebody else's home movies.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
38
Even I realize that other people's babies are boring. So is Babies.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
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5
Shiira
Aug 12, 2010
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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juderobe
Oct 12, 2010
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company Canal+, Chez Wam, StudioCanal
Release Date May 7, 2010
Duration 1 h 19 m
Rating PG
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Tagline Everybody loves...
Website http://www.focusfeatures.com/focusfeatures/film/babies/
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Awards

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
• 1 Nomination

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